Re: Publicly funded software development

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From: Mark Evans
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1998 00:00

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PILCH Hartmut <phm@a2e.de> wrote:
>>I still think the market for free software would be better off without
>>the economic distortions of any government funding (other than, say,

> What "market"?
> OpenSource Software is not market-driven.

Actually it is in the sense that support services are market driven.
Whatever is charged will have to reflect a fair price, otherwise
a customer can simply go elsewhere.

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From: Mark Evans <mark@grapefruit.ndirect.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Publicly funded software development
Date: 1998/10/11
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